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Are you using the default permalinks? If so, please try changing them:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Choosing_your_permalink_structure

1 Upload bp-member-filter.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2 Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3 Add a form to your members/index.php or some other file (See: http://pastebin.com/bw0suXwe )
4 Smile

@andrea_r – can you elaborate on the sitewide features that WP 3.0 won’t have?

This is a longstanding issue with WP/WPMU/BP. I’m not sure why in 3.0 the existing profile page wasn’t discontinued in favour of something that doesn’t require access to admin and that would be trumped if a BP install was present.

“or will my site loose any features?”

If you have any extra plugins that pull in sitewide features from across blogs, you might.

In WordPress 3.0 which will be released soon you can have blogs for users as well when using the multi-site options.

Buddypress works fine with WP 2.9.2. I am using both.
I am not sure I understand your problem.
Are you saying that you can’t sign in to the site?
Can’t register?
How about posting a link to your site.
I don’t like the WP register/login screen so I use a login with Ajax plugin.

The only difference between WPMU and WPSA is that WPMU offers blogs to your users.

If you are on wordpress, yourposts/pages will have pretty permalinks, like yoursite.com/category/post-title-name instead of yoursite.com/?p=12433 etc.
It is better for you as will give you better SEO and for BP It is required.
Just change the permalinks from numeric to something else.
And as far as I remember, all your posts (previous link) will also function without any issue.

Was your WordPress fully working before installing BuddyPress? e.g. posting a new blog post, adding a commenting, etc?

@gian-ava, if you’re on a cheap shared-host then there’s a possibility that could slow your website down, a lot. With a sudden rise in users and activity on a shared-host your site is bound to take a lot of strain, because of the limited resources that is dedicated to your site from your hosting company.

There is always a possibility of your site being hacked. I’m not too sure how likely this is otherwise it would be a widespread issue across buddypress.org.

For the unusual characters, I would set the encoding of your WordPress to Unicode(UTF8),
1. Make sure you are logged in as admin
2. In the admin dashboard, go to Settings > Reading
3. In the text box next to “Encoding for pages and feeds” insert “UTF-8” without the exclamation marks.

Hi, I’m new here. Any updates on this? How do I put this on the default template? I’ve tried using the codes above on the index but it won’t show up. Thanks

I’m running WordPress 2.9.2 and BuddyPress 1.2.2.1 by the way.

WP does generate a virtual robots.txt file, but I’m not sure if you can count BP in the mix as I’m not quite sure if BP does anything to it.

Try using this plugin to manage WP’s virtual robots.txt:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pc-robotstxt/

Hi ipstenu, I have used https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/ in an install with community similar to what you posted above with success

@novicer – Try using the BP Template Pack plugin with your WP theme:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

I would like to know this one too.

If you search wordpress plugins you can find the inbox stats.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/inbox-widget/

What I’m looking for is the “stats” plugin or modification I can use like the one on this site too.

I’ve tried the installation a few times on WAMP, MAMP and multiple installations on the same server … It should be important to note that THIS site bp.org has the same avatar uploading issues with this new template/release.

This is my htaccess file, which makes the avatar cropper work, but I still get the upload error after :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

WordPress loads the database from the setting in your Wp-config.php file. Once your new server or db is setup, just import a copy of your current db into it and update that config file.

In part that depends on how big a BP install you’re going to have. I would read this: http://wpmu.org/dedicated-or-shared-hosting-for-wordpress-mu/

Basically you’d look at it the same way you’d look at a WPMU site. How much traffic, how many users, how many groups and forums etc etc.

I just used: registered users only 2
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/registered-users-only-2/

Worked perfectly on activation.
Then went into my login.php and added the client’s logo to the login page – as Register plus didn’t seem to want to upload the logo for me.